How can I read only the header column of a CSV file using Python?

Question

I am looking for a a way to read just the header row of a large number of large CSV files.

Using Pandas, I have this method available, for each csv file:

Answer 1

Here's one way. You get 1 row.

In [9]: DataFrame(np.random.randn(10,4),columns=list('abcd')).to_csv('test.csv',mode='w')

In [10]: read_csv('test.csv',index_col=0,nrows=1)
Out[10]: 
          a         b         c         d
0  0.365453  0.633631 -1.917368 -1.996505